Music in the Round is the leading national producer of chamber music, with a year-round programme of hundreds of events for people of all ages. For over 40 years we have been bringing people and music closer together through our friendly and informative style of ‘in the round’ performances. We present concerts and the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival each year at our home venue, the Crucible Playhouse, as well as activity across the city and in partnership with venues around the country. Our events are characterised by passion, excellence and proximity. We connect people to music by presenting music in intimate venues, with amazing artists playing spine-tingling music with their heart and soul, often accompanied by lively spoken introductions. As well as attracting high quality artists to Sheffield, including Stephen Hough, Elaine Mitchener, Steven Isserlis, Jasdeep Singh Degun and our singer-in-residence Roderick Williams, we are currently building on burgeoning collaborations with the Royal Philharmonic Society, Young Classical Artists Trust and the Royal Over-Seas League to expand our profile and reach across the north and nationally.

Music in the Round is seeking a National Projects Manager who is passionate about what we do and is keen to be part of our aim of fully integrating all our strands of concert and L&P activity with venues outside of Sheffield. We are looking to appoint someone who will work with the Head of Programmes and National Projects Assistant to administer our national programme of events, maintaining and developing excellent relationships with a wide range of venues, organisations, supporters and musicians. Collaborating with our current partner venues around the country, this role is about nurturing each of these partnerships through presenting inspiring concerts and L&P activity within their local communities. It is key to maintaining strong partnerships with venues and promoters, both those keen to expand their live chamber music programming through concerts as well as those looking to deepen and embed music-making within their local communities.

Skills and Experience
We are looking for someone with experience of liaising with performers and collaborating with a range of people from different backgrounds, who can demonstrate some or all of the following:
• excellent administrative and project management skills and the ability to hit the ground running, picking up an existing programme, maintaining and developing it
• some experience of planning and administering community projects with and for children, young people and/or older adults with people of all ages and abilities
• some experience of negotiating with agents, musicians and/or promoters
• the ability to assume a collaboratively creative role that deepens our relationships with current venues to enable better collaboration for concerts and community events
• the ability to research and investigate potential opportunities for MitR to present activity in more venues across the country, both income-generating and where a partner seeks to embed music-making deeper in their communities through outreach activity and audience development
• the ability to work collaboratively with the staff, members of Ensemble 360 and volunteers
• an understanding of the administrative and business needs of an arts organisation, including governance, fundraising and marketing, with an aptitude for good public and internal relations
• an appreciation of the need for and a commitment to audience development
• strong organisational skills so that everyone involved in an event receives all the information needed in an accurate and timely manner
• decent communication skills, both written and verbal, and robust IT skills

Contact details

jo@musicintheround.co.uk
01142814660
Music in the Round
4th floor, Sheffield Central Library
Surrey Street